The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-06

Messrs. Stevens and Porter will go to Evansville
to-day or tomorrow fer conference with Pres-
ident Mackey.
The Toledo, St Louis & Kansas City road has
applied to the New York Stock Exchange TO list
81. 600 600 of its first per cent mortgage bonds,
falling due in 1916.
Probably within the next thirty days the stock
Of the Terre Haute e. Indianapolis road, for the
first time in its history, will be offered and
quoted or the New York Stock Exchange
Baker Hord and Hendricks on Saturday were
hearing on the bill for a foreclosure sale of the
Chicago e. Atlantic road would commence in
New York this week.
There were received and forwaded at this point.
which number &C. 3l2 were loaded cars. against a
total of 1887 cars in May of 1886, of which
number &C, 21S cars were loaded
George Z. Harrington, on his Western trip,
yer. and. on receiving word to hurry home did,
in all. some remarkable travelling. Including
the day in Denver, he averaged eighteen miles
an hour during the 1l8 hours.
be prosperous. The L., N. A. e. c. shows a gain
in May over the corresponding month of last
year. of $40. 675, the c., H. & d. gain of $lO.-
OBJ, the Wabash proper gain of $33, 600, the C.s
L., St L. & G. a gain of 1929
Anumber of the old employees of the Toledo,
Cincinnati St Louis narrow-guage road are
still unpaid. Any person having claims on the
payroll need only drop line to VIM T. Fish
back, master in chancery. and draft will at
once be RENTED without aid from an attorney.
s. B. Sweet, general agent of the Lake Erie
& Western. went to Fort Wayne on Saturday to
spend the Sabbath with his family. As soon as
it is settled what the Lake Erie & Western
people will do he will remove his family to In
dianapols. AS matters now stand railroad
official knows not what day may bring forth.
His headquarters are likely to change any day.
IL his head does not tumble into a basket
majority of railroad men consider 1t fortunate.
For.y-eighr hours often makes great deal of
int ha vo1ty nf al afn N N
dianapolis party who owned some Of the I. IL.
& L stock on Friday became somewhat alarmed
Ever was t ee .b lame anr TO
know what she could get for her stock. aud was
answered only $Il5 She accepted the offer, not
withstanding the fact that forty-eight hours
previous stock of the T. Fl. & l. was sold at
$240
Henry S. Ives, the young railroad 'scooper,"
Saturday said to q representative OF the
Journal that he should return from New York
the latter part of next week. When asked if he
was through scooping in railroads for the pres
ent. he smiled, and said mo, not by any means"
1t is understood that his next drive will be to Sc
cure a road into Cleveland. In fact. it is init
mated that he has already pade an offer for the
Valley road, of which j. H Wade is president.
and line which has excellent terminal facilities
in Cleveland.
The management of the Toledo, st. Louis &
Kansas City road, which is to be at once con-
verified into standard guage road. have asked
the l., D. & s. people to enter into no arrange
ments with the Wabash, or any other road, for
st. Louis line. on the widening of their
gauge, in connection with the l.. ID. & S, they
wish to establish through line between Indian
apolis and st. Louis, running solid trains. The
connection will be at Metcalf, and would make
line between Indianapolis and St Louis 253
miles in length, against the l. & St. L. 262 miles
in length, and against the Vandalia 240 miles in
length.
j. H. Bending brother of the inventor of the
Bending safety car-heater and fire extib gusher,
is in the city calling some of the prominent
railroad officials. explaining to them the plan of
this invention and its utility for the purpose de-
signed. The device in appearance resemble an
| ordina. car-stove The fire is extingushed by
chemicals, the connection of the stove with the
chemicals being close that there is no pos
sibility of non action The instant the car is de-
raIled, simple device between the wheels just
above the rails opens the valve, ard the solution
instantly extinguishes the fire. By small pipe
which runs along the coach the solution is also
thrown upon the lamps and extingufshes the
flame. a very satisfactory test of the extin-
guisher was made the Baltimore s. Ohio road
a few days ago. Mr.. Bending saws be is pre-
pared to show that a heater this invention
has no superior and at the same time it is per-
feet hre-extingulsher